I think that I shall never see A poem lovelyas a tree.
Joyce KilmerAt present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful ... The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over — a century after it is over.
Joyce KilmerI think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is prestAgainst the earth's sweet flowing breast;A tree that looks at God all day,And lifts her leafy arms to pray;A tree that may in Summer wearA nest of robins in her hair;Upon whose bosom snow has lain;Who intimately lives with rain.Poems are made by fools like me,But only God can make a tree.
Joyce KilmerThere is no strange and distant placeThat is not gladdened by His face.And every nation kneels to hailThe Splendour shining through Its veil.
Joyce KilmerI think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. … Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.
Joyce KilmerI think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. * * * * A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.
Joyce KilmerI think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. * * * * Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.
Joyce KilmerI think that I shall never see/ A poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer